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I build something very similar in 2007: http://quotevault.appspot.com/

It has a bookmarklet to store quotes, and you can share selected quotes on a public 'quote feed': http://quotevault.appspot.com/public/terhechte

It never really took of, so I stopped working on it. Kinda stupid because I spend quite some time working on it. Good luck with your endeavour.

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That's pretty cool. I notice you have both a public and private option for users. We're sticking to making everything public for now for network effects, but will be keen to add a private option later on, demand pending.

Private would be huge for me. I wouldn't think of using it without it.

It actually started as a private-only thing, and I only added the social sharing & feed features later. My own use case was collecting quotes, and that's what I build it for. I then realized that I might need some social glue to attract users.

Well, use it as part of your portfolio, opensource the project on github and share your experience :)

Thanks, not a bad idea. I'll look into it.

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